The year 2012 has been a difficult one for Marion County.
We’ve experienced a great deal of heartache and tragedy.
But there have been some bright spots, too.
The following is what the editorial staff deem to be the top 10 stories of the year.
Our wish is that 2013’s list will include more “good” news and less of the bad.

Hannah Wilson has been practicing.
In her living room.
While watching Youtube videos on her computer.
“I’ve been doing the fitness routine, and I’m out of breath,” Wilson said when the Enterprise called her for a phone interview last week.
Wilson’s getting ready to represent Marion County in the 2012 Kentucky Distinguished Young Woman program, which is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 11, and Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington.

A family of five escaped a fire Sunday afternoon, but their home and three small dogs did not survive.

“I loved my dogs, but we all made it out OK,” Julie Flores said. “We lost everything that we had. There’s nothing.”

Julie Flores, her husband Jose and their three children (ages 17, 16 and 14) had returned from visiting friends in northern Indiana on Sunday afternoon. Julie Flores said they rented some movies, picked up a couple of their friends’ kids and went home to watch the films.